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**Seth Kinman 1864** September 29, 1815 Union County, Pennsylvania Died February 24, 1888 (aged 72) Table Bluff, California Resting place Table Bluff Cemetery, Loleta, California 40.6495°N 124.2093°W Occupation Hunter, hotel keeper Known for Presidential chairs Seth Kinman (September 29, 1815 – February 24, 1888)[1] was an early settler of Humboldt County, California, a hunter based in Fort Humboldt, a famous chair maker, and a nationally recognized entertainer. He stood over 6 ft (1.83 m) tall and was known for his hunting prowess and his brutality toward bears and Indians. Kinman claimed to have shot a total of over 800 grizzly bears, and, in a single month, over 50 elk.[2] He was also a hotel keeper, barkeeper, and a musician who performed for President Lincoln on a fiddle made from the skull of a mule. Known for his publicity seeking, Kinman appeared as a stereotypical mountain man dressed in buckskins on the U.S. east coast and selling cartes de visites of himself and his famous chairs. The chairs were made from elkhorns and grizzly bear skins and given to U.S. Presidents.[3][4] Presidents so honored include James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Rutherford Hayes. He may have had a special relationship with President Lincoln, appearing in at least two of Lincoln's funeral corteges, and claiming to have witnessed Lincoln's assassination. His autobiography, dictated to a scribe in 1876, was first published in 2010 and is noted for putting "the entertainment value of a story ahead of the strict facts." His descriptions of events change with his retelling of them. Contemporary journalists and modern writers were clearly aware of the stories contained in the autobiography, "but each chooses which version to accept."[5] A mountain man is a trapper and explorer who lives in the wilderness. Mountain men were most common in the North American Rocky Mountains from about 1810 through the 1880s (with a peak population in the early 1840s). They were instrumental in opening up the various Emigrant Trails (widened into wagon roads) allowing Americans in the east to settle the new territories of the far west by organized wagon trains traveling over roads explored and in many cases, physically improved by the mountain men and the big fur companies originally to serve the mule train based inland fur trade. They arose in a natural geographic and economic expansion driven by the lucrative earnings available in the North American fur trade, in the wake of the various 1806–07 published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expeditions' (1803–1806) findings about the Rockies and the (ownership-disputed) Oregon Country where they flourished economically for over three decades. By the time two new international treaties in early 1846 and early 1848 [1] officially settled new western coastal territories on the United States and spurred a large upsurge in migration, the days of mountain men making a good living by fur trapping had largely ended. This was partially because the fur industry was failing due to reduced demand and overtrapping. With the silk trade and quick collapse of the North American beaver-based fur trade in the later 1830s–1840s, many of the mountain men settled into jobs as Army Scouts, wagon train guides and settlers through the lands which they had helped open up. Others, like William Sublette, opened up fort-trading posts along the Oregon Trail to service the remnant fur trade and the settlers heading west.

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Dennis Weaver (left) as Chester and James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon in TV's "Gunsmoke," seen here on the main street at Melody Ranch in 1956. Did you know the tv producers wanted John Wayne to play Matt Dillon, and he didn't want to be tied to a tv series so he suggested his friend, James Arness.

Gunfighter Luke Short, accompanied by his friend, Bat Masterson, confronts gunfighter Longhaired Jim Courtwright on this date in 1887 in Ft. Worth, Texas. Short had an interest in the White Elephant Saloon. Courtright, a former marshal of Fort Worth, reportedly ran a protection racket in which he offered his "protection" to saloon and gambling house owners. Short told Courtright that he would protect his own place.

Sweethearts of the West - Pictured; Luke Short from an article by award-winning author, Ashley Kath-Bilsky, titled: LUKE SHORT..."King of the Gamblers" and "The Undertaker's Best Friend" .

Luke L. Short (1854-September 8, 1893) was an American Old West gunfighter, who had worked as a farmer, cowboy, whiskey peddler, army scout, dispatch rider, gambler, and saloon keeper at various times during his almost four decades life. Luke Short - called the "Undertaker's Friend" ... an Old West dandy, gentleman gambler, friend of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, all around dangerous man with a gun.

Professional gambler and dandy Luke Short, a friend of Wyatt Earp's from Dodge City

TV's Bonanza - SRSU is Hoss Cartwright's Alma Mater

Bonanza's Cartwright Clan ! The ultimate cowboys!

My all time favorite TV show and family!!

Bonanza – A Western Legend

Daddy LOVED this show--never missed it--I can remember watching it with him. Bonanza--an NBC television western series, that ran from September 12, 1959 to January 16, 1973. The show centers around the Cartwright family, who live in the area near Lake Tahoe, Nevada. The show stars Lorne Greene (Ben), Pernell Roberts (Adam), Dan Blocker (Hoss), Michael Landon Little Joe), and Victor Sen Yung (Hop Sing-their cook)